EMT Practice Test

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Question1: A client wants to enhance their business continuity objectives.
Which of the following is an advantage of an Enterprise server over a Scale-out server?

Question2: A customer has the approval and funding to deploy a cloud solution on Power. They must limit business disruption while implementing the solution.
Which IBM resource is available to help design a plan, configure, test and deploy a solution?

Question3: What two IBM Power offerings, not available on x86, allow customers to move capacity activations amongst servers and change LPAR processor and memory capacity?

Question4: Which of the following is supported on the S812LC?

Question5: What ability of PowerVM provides a competitive advantage compared to VMware?

Question6: A large POWER8 customer requests a proposal for an inexpensive Power System to store rarely used historical data. There is 4U of available rack space and an initial need for 3TB of storage. Their growth plan is projected to require 12TB of data.
Which of the following solutions would meet their future growth requirements?

Question7: An existing customer wants to minimize the risk of replacing their HP system running an Oracle database with IBM Power Systems.
Which resource should be reviewed with the customer?

Question8: A customer is having a hard time justifying the cost of an HMC. They want to have dual VIO Servers on multiple Power servers in their environment that they can control from one screen.
What is their best option?

Question9: Which of the following cloud solution providers supports OpenPower Foundation solutions?

Question10: A customer wants to acquire a server that can run Linux. The customer is interested in the active memory mirroring feature for the hypervisor.
Which of the following offers the best price/performance option for the customer?

Question11: A customer will purchase an IBM POWER8 server to migrate and consolidate multiple x86 workloads, but does not have personnel to perform the migration.
Which IBM resource exists to perform such migrations?

Question12: What elements of POWER8 technology can be exploited by software developers to optimize performance on an E870?

Question13: A retail customer wants to expand their analytic capabilities to improve profit margins. They want to use an in-columnar database for fast reporting, dash-boarding for end-user business intelligence, and then add predictive analytics.
Which software solution stack would satisfy all of their requirements?

Question14: POWER8 systems introduced a feature to keep it running under power and thermal limits. This improves performance and energy management, while providing additional system reliability and availability.

Question15: What is an advantage of a POWER8 Scale-out system compared to an x86 solution?

Question16: A customer has many x86 systems running Linux and has run out of server rack space.
Which statement indicates how Power Systems provides a solution to resolve the space issue?

Question17: A customer acquired a local rival year that had two existing POWER6 570s: each with 16-cores running in an active/active cluster with IBM i and PowerHA. They are ready to refresh the solution using an active/ passive cluster with a minimum of 26 cores for their production partition. The customer has a limited budget.
For the least cost, which option should the Power Seller propose?

Question18: What capabilities are provided by IBM Cloud PowerVC Manager that are not in PowerVC Standard Edition?

Question19: A customer with an E870 recently acquired a small company with an x86 Linux server running a scripting Java application. They would like to run that application on their E870, but are concerned about the porting effort.
How should the salesperson respond?

Question20: A customer is purchasing a new POWER8 Scale-out server and desires three years of hardware maintenance with 24 hour by 7 day coverage.
Which option satisfies this request?

Question21: A customer is considering purchasing DB2 and WebSphere, and will determine whether to run it on POWER8 or x86. Both servers are licensed at 70 PVUs.
What is a reason that they should choose POWER instead of x86 to help reduce licensing cost?

Question22: Which RAS feature is available only on Power E870 and E880 systems?

Question23: A small business wants to acquire a server for a new Linux application that requires eight cores. They are concerned about how a core failure might impact their business and are considering redundant x86 servers.
What feature of an IBM S812L running PowerVM would offer a selling advantage?

Question24: A customer is running a critical large Oracle Database on x86 servers in a 4-node cluster. After moving to an 8-node RAC cluster, they are experiencing poor performance of the cluster.
Which POWER8 advantage is most relevant to resolve the customer's problem?

Question25: Which customer requirement would lead to a proposal of a 6-core S814 instead of a 4-core S814 server?

Question26: A POWER8 customer running IBM i on an S814 has hired a new database analyst. They are sizing a possible new Dell server to receive nightly copies of selected data tables from the Power server where MySQL queries can be executed.
What should be discussed to position Power Systems capabilities?

Question27: Which of the following RAS features is available on POWER8 Scale-out servers?

Question28: A customer wants to provide server infrastructure to support their critical AIX Systems of Record. Their immediate needs are small; but, they expect significant growth over the life of the server infrastructure as they consolidate workloads from several subsidiaries.
They do not want to pay for idle capacity, but they do want to scale their capacity without physical impact on the running workloads as they scale up. They expect significant growth 12 months after installation, and again 24 months after installation.
What Power Systems capability will help them minimize their initial investment and scale as needed over the life of the server infrastructure?

Question29: An IT manager has several POWER5 servers and wants to consolidate them into a new POWER8 server.
The CFO (Chief Financial Officer) is asking for a financial justification for the project.
Which resource can be used to provide the financial assessment?

Question30: A customer wants to make use of a public cloud solution for applications that run on Linux on Power.
Which of the following can accommodate the customer requirement?

Question31: A customer is implementing a new mission critical SAP landscape and requires a Power system with the highest level of RAS support.
Which of the following will satisfy the requirement?

Question32: A client is considering acquiring an E850.
What is the minimum number of physical cores that can be proposed?

Question33: IBM is competing with Cisco for a large Oracle database opportunity.
What advantage of POWER8 systems should an IBM Power reseller emphasize?

Question34: Which of the following can be used to estimate the three-year TCO of a Power S824 compared to an HP DL580?

Question35: The OpenPOWER Foundation is developing solutions for which environment(s)?

Question36: A customer has a critical invoice application for which the system is mostly underutilized. During the last week of the month, response times become unacceptable due to grow. The customer does not want to pay for a system that is idle most of the time.
What should be proposed?

Question37: An IT consultant has asked what IBM has done to make it simpler to port Linux on x86 software onto POWER8 because the data structures are stored differently.
Which of the following responses is most accurate?

Question38: A customer wants to deploy a new private cloud infrastructure and is evaluating both x86 and Power System technologies.
What benefit can be achieved by IBM Power Systems Solution edition for Cloud?

Question39: Which of the following statements correctly describes a difference between the S814 and S824?

Question40: Which of the following is true about the IBM Data Engine for NoSQL - Power Systems Edition?

Question41: A customer wants to use a virtualization technology that has a consistent interface across both the x86 and Scale-out Power platforms.
Which hypervisor for Power Systems will satisfy their requirement?

Question42: A client wants to replace their current AIX-based WebSphere server. Budget is an issue.
What is the lowest cost option?

Question43: Which of the following is required to run IBM Cloud PowerVC Manager?

Question44: A Power Seller was contacted by an installed client to make the team aware that the business was acquired by a competitor that utilizes Cisco UCS.
Because their lease on the Power SAP system is concluding, the new owners have suggested that a new solution should not be acquired but consolidated into the new company's Cisco UCS solution because of better TCO.
Which of the following should the Power Seller propose?

Question45: Which RAS feature is available on both the Scale-out and Enterprise systems?

Question46: An application has a high availability requirement and is implemented with two local partitioned POWER8 servers and one remote partitioned POWER8 server. One local server runs production and replicates data to the backup local server. The backup local server replicates data to backup remote server.
What is the minimum number of HMCs required to support the sites?

Question47: If a product specific Technical and Delivery Assessment (TDA) checklist is not available, what should a Business Partner use to complete the TDA?

Question48: A customer is running an Oracle database on Solaris and needs to replace their systems. They are considering offerings from both Oracle and IBM. Oracle is leading with M5.
What advantage should the IBM reseller discuss to demonstrate the value of POWER8?

Question49: A customer with no in-house IT supports needs to implement a solution that includes a relational database, industry leading security, standards based Internet technology, networking and storage management capabilities.
Which operating system will satisfy the customer's requirement?

Question50: An existing IBM customer explains they cannot consider POWER8 because they have a small application that requires AIX 5.2.
Which of the following capabilities will allow their application to run on a POWER8 server?

Question51: What do POWER8 servers require when system firmware downloads are applied to the system?

Question52: A customer needs to update their Linux application and is comparing Power to x86 solutions.
What benefit can be highlighted to demonstrate the value that POWER8 offers compared to x86 solutions?

Question53: A customer plans to implement a web-based solution that requires 34 Power cores. They want to acquire a POWER8 solution with the best TCA.
Assuming all other configuration requirements are equal, which solution provides the best TCA?

Question54: What is a competitive advantage of a Power System compared to an Oracle Exadata system?

Question55: A customer has several workloads running AIX v5.3 on older POWER5 servers. They have a long-term need for those applications and would like to consolidate them onto a single POWER8 server.
Which of following will satisfy the customer's requirements?

Question56: A customer wants to run multiple workloads and is considering an S824 and an E850.
Under which condition will the E850 be more appropriate?

Question57: A customer is concerned that IBM might not deliver the next generation of a POWER processor on time.
Which of the following should be discussed to potentially alleviate their concern?

Question58: A client is hosting their servers in a managed data center and rack space is costly. They need to deploy a new Red Hat Linux application that requires 48 cores over multiple partitions.
What is the recommended solution?

Question59: A customer whose business is rapidly growing has selected an OpenPOWER Foundation application that requires GPU accelerators. They want to start with 20 cores in a single server, but may eventually need
1,000 cores. They require a modular design that can easily grow.
Which of the following is the best model to satisfy their current and future growth needs?

Question60: A customer wants to implement a new application that requires the purchase of a new platform. The application is highly threaded during the day operations and single threaded during the nightly batch window.
They are inclined to purchase x86 servers because that has been their strategic direction.
What should the account representative emphasize as an advantage for POWER compared to the x86 solution?

Question61: A customer is considering migrating from a large Solaris environment to an AIX solution. They want help with their migration planning and some private training.
Which IBM solution will provide the most efficient help?

Question62: Which analytics solution is supposed on Cognos?

Question63: A customer is analyzing the acquisition of a big data solution and wants to deploy several SUSE virtual machines.
Which is the best virtualization solution for running this on an S812LC?